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As organizations move to the cloud, securing workloads, applications, and data becomes critical. This post discusses using Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange to provide comprehensive cloud security. Key security capabilities highlighted include SSL inspection, data loss prevention, and URL filtering policies tailored for cloud workloads. The post provides guidance on design considerations and implementing baseline security policies within the Zscaler platform.

Contact centers can improve customer experiences using generative AI, which creates new content and conversations. Accenture’s Connected Customer Experience (CCE) solution incorporates AWS services to provide personalized human and AI interactions. It uses generative AI for agent assist, call summarization, and self-service FAQs. By leveraging generative AI on AWS, CCE aims to enhance agent productivity, reduce handle times, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Managing cloud costs is complex without enterprise-wide visibility, and FinOps provides financial accountability to maximize investments. Kyndryl’s approach to FinOps on AWS emphasizes transparent visibility for cultural transformation through continuous optimization, cost attribution, savings recommendations, anomaly detection, and role-based access across hybrid clouds. Customers can expect up to 30% savings through Kyndryl’s cost optimization expertise.

Integrating security scanning into infrastructure as code (IaC) allows detecting misconfigurations early in development. This post explores using the KICS plugin from Checkmarx with AWS CDK. Learn how KICS performs static code analysis to find vulnerabilities and compliance issues in IaC and scans the CDK code to report findings, failing the command for high-severity issues. This shifts security left, mitigating risks in deployed infrastructure.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides best practices for cloud architectures across six pillars. Comprinno’s Tevico enhances the Well-Architected review experience through collaboration tools, automatic risk identification, integrated remediation planning, and a knowledge base. Key features include visual diagramming, multi-user collaboration, auto-discovery of risks, and more. With AWS integration, Tevico helps customers comprehensively evaluate their workloads and swiftly remediate high-risk issues.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allow quick deployment of EC2 instances, but managing multiple customized AMIs is complex. Stratus10’s Image Management Solution automates and streamlines AMI building, testing, and deployment using EC2 Image Builder. It provides consistency, integrates with current processes, reduces costs, and improves security. By eliminating manual processes, engineering teams can focus on innovation while hardened images ensure best practices.

Enterprise cloud adoption enables scalability but can introduce security and compliance challenges from decentralized builders and disparate growth. Accenture’s Secure Cloud Foundation on AWS provides a well-defined, automated account provisioning process with guardrails to enable secure and streamlined self-service innovation across teams. It establishes robust cloud foundations to automate security and break organizational barriers for accountability and outcomes.

Salesforce and AWS provide integrations that extend platform capabilities to help organizations solve unique business problems. Customers leverage Salesforce for modern user workflows and AWS for backend services, system integration, and data analytics. Integrations link the platforms through automation and tightly coupled services to meet security and performance needs, often using asynchronous event flows.

KewSustain is an AI platform by KewMann built on AWS that addresses gaps in sustainability compliance. It efficiently gathers ESG data from multiple sources, analyzes it, and generates sustainability reports adhering to major frameworks. Key features include automated data collection, collaboration tools, recommendations based on various risk factors, real-time insights via dashboards, and a virtual assistant providing guidance on reporting requirements.

ServiceNow and AWS have collaborated to bridge language barriers in global workforces. Using AWS services like Amazon Translate and Amazon Comprehend, the AWS Translate Spoke for ServiceNow Flow Designer enables automatic translation of text into employees’ native languages. By demonstrating how the AWS Translate Spoke can translate knowledge articles, this post explains how ServiceNow customers can easily build multi-language workflows to serve global users.